Category: In The News

  • Business Laws Amendment Act 2024

    Business Laws Amendment Act 2024

    Background The Business Laws Amendment Bill 2024 became law in Kenya on 27 December 2024, after having been signed into law (assented) by the President of Kenya on 11 December 2024. The Act can be accessed here  TheBusinessLaws_Amendment_Act_No.20of2024.pdf In our assessment, the Act’s primary focus is to introduce the regulation of all previously unregulated financiers…

  • Kenya’s Newly Introduced Electronic Travel Authorization For Foreign Nationals

    Kenya’s Newly Introduced Electronic Travel Authorization For Foreign Nationals

    During Kenya’s 2023 ‘Jamhuri Day’ celebrations, held annually on 12 December marking the country’s attainment of independence from Britain and becoming a republic, the President HE William Ruto announced that Kenya was going to be a visa-free country for ALL foreigners from 1st January 2024. Following this pronouncement, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National…

  • Capital Gains Tax in Kenya: What it is charged on, How it is calculated and Who pays it

    Capital Gains Tax in Kenya: What it is charged on, How it is calculated and Who pays it

    Introduction Capital Gains Tax (CGT) was introduced in Kenya in 1975 but was later suspended in June 1985. The tax was subsequently reintroduced by the Finance Act of 2014 which amended the Eight Schedule of the Income Tax Act cap 470 Laws of Kenya (Income Tax Act), with effect from 1st January 2015 at the…

  • Kenya Data Protection Compliance Guide: The Privacy Principle

    Kenya Data Protection Compliance Guide: The Privacy Principle

    In our third article in our Data Protection law series, we discuss the principles of data protection and how organisations can implement them. Principles & Rights based legislation Those who are by now familiar with Kenya’s Data Protection Act of 2019 will appreciate that this law, like the EU’s GDPR. is inward looking; it requires…

  • Kenya Data Protection Compliance Guide: Overview

    Kenya Data Protection Compliance Guide: Overview

    With President Kenyatta’s nomination, in October 2020, of Ms Immaculate Kassait as Data Commissioner and communicating the nomination to the National Assembly for its approval, it appears to be only a matter of time before the office of the Data Protection Commissioner is staffed, and the Data Protection Act of 2019 operationalized. The office of…

  • Disney trade marked Hakuna Matata in the US, but unlikely in Kenya and East Africa

    https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/analysis/ideas/How-US-firm-trademarked-the-hakuna-matata/4259414-5197122-o853diz/index.html

  • Kenya: BCLB Prohibits Licensing of SportPesa Trade Mark

    Many sports betting firms in Kenya must have seen (and celebrated) the widely publicized media return of SportPesa (the media must have itself missed out on the apparently huge advertising revenue from SporPesa), welcoming the return of the giant sport betting company that not only sponsored the KPL and local clubs, but also Everton (remember…

  • Kenya COVID-19 Numbers

    Total confirmed cases today: 559 Total deaths today: 18 Total recoveries today: 478 Total tested today: 3,074 Total tested to date: 678,000 Total confirmed cases to date: 70,804 Total deaths to date: 1,287 Total recoveries to date: 45,766

  • Kenyan Employers: Mandatory Compliance with the National Employment Authority (NEA)

    The National Employment Authority (“NEA”) published a notice in the major Kenyan dailies issuing an extended deadline of 8th July 2019 for employers to file certain returns in respect of their employees with it. NEA has stated that all employers need to file returnsindicating the following: Notice of filing or abolishing a post; Notice of…